Freemasonry and The Bee
The bee is a symbol of systematized industry, an obedient people and of rebirth.
It is easier to accept that the Merovingians, freemasons and Napoleon found their way to the symbol by their own path than it is to create a convulated and undocumented connection between them as some conspiracy theorists have tried.
Duh ..
THE BEEHIVE AND FREEMASONRY
Masonic symbols may be divided into two groups, one of which consists of the tools of the Craft, and the other of such objects as are not necessarily associated. with building, such as the ark, the beehive, the pentagon, acacia,, etc.
The latter group may have been derived from the Guild.
Assuming that there was symbalic teaching in the Guild then the. coffer, or chest could be made to symbolise the ark, the pentagon the points of fellowship or the wounds of Christ, while the beehive, which was a practical representation Of the highest geometry direct from the Grand Geometrician, may have carried an inner meaning rendering it emblematic of the resurrection.
Such a meaning harmonises with the Hiramic legend under Christian teaching, and the preceding extracts show that the idea certainly existed in religion and folklore.
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